Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24082, William Duggins, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Duggins, William or Dufans
No. 24082.
B. L. Mt. 24-60 55
Elizabeth
CONTENTS

St. H. D. Waltham Dec. 20/55 Me
Feb 48 - no 5474
21246 } see March 3/55 March 28/55
Elizabeth Duggins  Huggins m. g. William Duggins  Huggins p.
Cape St. Joseph
do Capt. Reed, { maps, Col. Brooks, { cont. line,
Rev. Revolutionary War
Widow in a pensioner Amount 60 Acn, pay. 11 1/2/55 Blythton Bozton
R. D. S.
B. H. MacD Bangor Me

Set B. H. Mass Jany 3 rd 56 Reputed
First
Reg 55-21246-Ad 62-24
5474 Maine.
Elizabeth Duggins widow of William Duggins who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of July 1850 and sent to
L. L. Combs Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 9, 1848, Page 9 Vol. 1

I John McPhetres of Orono in the County of Penobscot, State of Maine aged seventy eight years on oath say that Elizabeth Duggins of Bangor is my sister and she is now Eighty two years of age, she was married to William Duggins in the year Seventeen hundred and Eightynine (1789) sixty years ago last March I was acquainted with William Duggins before his marriage, He was reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and was so considered by all who knew him, He was a native of Brunswick Maine and died in the year Eighteen hundred and three (1803) and his widow Elizabeth Duggins has not been married since that time Elizabeth Duggins had seven children by her husband, viz, Rosanna, Sarah, Eliza Charles, William, Isabella & John, Rosanna married John Great and died in Enfield in Eighteen hundred and forty two (1842) she would have been about sixty years of age if now living, My sister and William Duggins lived together as husband and wife from the time of their marriage to the time of his death, I have often heard him speak of his Revolutionary services and he was reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier John McPhetres

Penobscot S.S. Dec. 14. 1849
Then personally appeared the above named John McPhetres a credible witness and a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed
Before Me, Nahum Warren, Justice of the Peace

State of Maine Penobscot County ss.
Probate Office Bangor I John Williams Register of Probate Court in and for said County hereby certify that Nahum Warren Coquin is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified and commissioned agreeably to the laws of the State that his commission hereunto date the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and forty seven and will expire on the fourth day of March eighteen hundred and fifty four. and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Probate Court. this fifteenth day of December one thousand and forty nine
John Williams Register

Application Elizabeth Dugan Widow of Mr Dugan, a soldier of the Revolution She refers to her Pension papers on file in the Department. No 21246
B. H. Hase Bangor Me.

STATE OF MAINE.
County of Waltham ss.
On this sixth day of March A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me, Elizabeth Vagans within and for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Vagans aged eighty seven years, a resident of Waltham in the State of Maine who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of William Vagans deceased, who was a private in the com- pany commanded by Captain John Lillibridge in the Regiment of commanded by in the war with  of the Rebellion declared by the United States on the that her husband at on or about day of A. D. and continued in actual service in said war in garrison, as follows ;
She refers for a more full statement of the facts relative to her husband's service, before her marriage, his death, and her title in his right. To an application made by her for a pension about sixteen years ago, and to a pension certificate issued in the month of July 1880 and paid in the pension list in the Portland Oregon for 1880. See year.
In addition to the actual service above described she claims for her husband's travel miles from at which the company was organized to where he was mustered into service, and for miles from at which he was discharged to the said place of his enrolment. And for her husband's travel miles from at which the company was organized to where he was mustered into service, and for miles from at which he was discharged to the said place of his enrolment. And for her husband's travel miles from at which the company was organized to where he was mustered into service, and for miles from at which he was discharged to the said place of his enrolment, and that he was honorably discharged, verbally, no written discharges were given.

She further states that she was married to the said William Dugan in 1848 on the 10th day of March A. D. by one Rev. S. H. Phelps a Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth McPherson that her said husband died at Cincinnati on the sixteenth day of May A. D. 1850 and that she is still a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act passed March 22d, 1852."
Elizabeth X Dugan
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Samuel L. Fish Justice of the Peace
I hereby appoint Rev. H. M. Mann of Bangor County of Penobscot Maine to prosecute my claim against the United States for the bounty land to which I may be entitled under the Act passed March 22d 1852.
Elizabeth X Dugan
The above powers are acknowledged before me.
Samuel L. Fish

We the undersigned Clerk of the State of Maine on oath depose and say that we are well acquainted with Elizabeth Dugans whose sign- and made oath to the foregoing declaration in our presence that she is well known to us as the Widow of the said William Dugans. We also depose that we well knew her at the time she applied for a pension about sixteen years ago and know that she is the same person who received a pension from the Government about five years ago and that she is now on the pension list at the rate of a gross of eighty dollars per year as stated by her and that she is still the Widow of the said William Dugans. We also depose that the deceased was married with Elizabeth Dugans and William Dugans in the life time of the latter and that they lived together as husband and wife and so continued until the death of the said William Dugans who died intestate and that the said Elizabeth is now his Widow.
R.R. Purk William Day
Subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that the said R.R. Clerk of Wm Day are entitled to credit and well known to me; and that there is no interest in this claim or interest in its prosecution.
Samuel L. Fish Justice of the Peace. William Day
Benobscut Is
State of Maine
I, Nathan Weston Jr. Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Samuel L. Fish Esquire, is and was at the date of his certificate to this paper an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this twenty fourth day of March A.D. 1855
Nathan Weston Jr. Clerk

6254
Elizabeth Dugans Me
Act 7. July 38.

State of Maine
Penobscot ss
Personally appeared before me Anson G Chandler one of the Justices of the District Court for the Eastern District this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Elizabeth Dugans a resident of the town of Niemarnock in the County of Piscataquis and the State of aforesaid. Widow, aged Seventy two years who being first Cautioned and sworn agreeably to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of William Dugans who was a Volunteer Soldier in the army of the Revolution. She does not know when he entered the service except from hearing him and others say that he was present during the whole period of the war, at the time he entered the service he resided in the town of Topsham in the then State of Massachusetts. She has no documentary proof of her husbands service but refers to the deposition of John Blake present annexed and who was a Lieutenant in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment. for proof of her husbands service. She further declares that she was married to the said William Dugans at Bangor which was then called Penobscot in the said State of Maine on the Thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty nine, and she also says that her husband died in Orono in the State aforesaid on the Sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three and further that she was not married prior

to his leaving the Service but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January One hundred ninety four namely on the day and year above mentioned and that she is now unmarried and has not been married since his death
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day and year above written
Witness Ingers Can Jr.
Fred. Hobbs
State of Maine District Court for the Eastern District Elizabeth chu X Dugans mark
Personally appeared before me the above named Elizabeth Dugans and made oath that the above declaration by her subscribed is true this eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Anson G Chandler justice E.D.D.
State of Maine
Penobscot ss.
I Charles Stetson clerk of the Judicial Court for the State of Maine within and for the county of Penobscot do hereby certify that Anson G Chandler is a Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature annexed purporting to be his is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of said Court to be affixed this seventeenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Charles Stetson, Clerk.

I believe Thomas, of Durham, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged eighty two years old the twenty third day of last February on oath depose and say, that I was born in the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, but resided in the Town of Bath, Maine, in the time of the Revolution I was married to Thomas Duzing in the Town of Bowdoin about the year 1788. My said husband Thomas Duzing died A.D. 1826. After the death of my first husband I married with James Thomas, of Durham with whom I lived until his death, which took place October 1848. The name of my first husband's Father was John Duzen or Duggins, the name being written several ways. He was a resident of Falmouth. Before Elizabeth, in his younger days, he married his wife in one of those places. His first wife's name was Rose Finch, by her he had four children viz. William, Mary, Lydia and Thomas. Before the Revolution he moved from Cape Elizabeth in Falmouth to Nova Scotia in the British province, at the commencement of the revolution, he took an active part with the united colonies, in consequence of which he was obliged to leave the province and seek refuge with his friends, in the States. He came with his family and settled in the Town of Topsham, in the early part of the revolution. After the death of his first wife, Rose Finch, he was married to Lois Ray, by whom he had one child viz. Rosanna, and after the death of his second wife, he was published to Mary or Molly Orr, there was some difficulty about their being married, he applied to several Justices of the Peace, but they refused to marry them, and

Whether they were ever married I am not able to say they lived together a short time and then parted William Duggins, the eldest Son of John Duggins went into the Army, and served to the end of the war. After he came out of the Army he lived in Topsham two or three years, and I think some more, and then went to Penobscot, & settled at Bangor, then called Penobscot eaz. He there married Elizabeth M c Pheters, with whom he lived and had a large family of children. He has been dead more than forty years. He died in consequence of a cancer on his leg. I saw said William Duggins, after he went to Penobscot, and after he was married, and have never heard of the death of his widow, or that she ever married again after the death of her husband William Duggins. She was reputed to be a very clever woman She was born in Townsborough, and was the Daughter of Archibald M c Pheters. John Duggins my my Father in law married his second wife Lois Rey in Portland or Falmouth. He was published to Mary Orr in Topsham.
I have heard William Duggins say that he was entitled to Land for his services in the war of the revolution and I think he went to the eastward to Penobscot with the expectation of obtaining it there. I have often heard his Father and Mother say that he was entitled to Land for his services in the war but that he did not or could not obtain it. I am unable to say whe- ther he finally obtained his land or not. The mothers and sisters of the said William Duggins I believe are now all dead, and I do not know of any one in Topsham, now living who would be

able to give any information relative to his revolution any services and decease. He was well known to be a revolutionary soldier, and there is no doubt that his widow is justly entitled to a pension, for she was married at that time after I was - I was married A. 1788. and William Duggins and Elizabeth McPherson were married the year following 1789. My maiden name was Chloe Sufant, and of a place called Potastown, now Boddoine.
her Chloe X Thomas mark
Cumberland ss April 24 1850 Then personally appeared the above named Chloe Thomas and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed before me
I further certify that the said affiant is a very smart and active woman of one of her age her intellectu- al faculties appear remarkably bright, her state- ments are positive and without hesitation She speaks of the scenes of the Revolution as if they had recently transpired. She is by reputation and in accordance with my own views a woman of strict truth and veracity.
Allery H. Gobb Justice of the Peace

State of Maine — City of Portland —
I William Boyd, Clerk of the City of Portland hereby certify, that I have in my possession a copy of the Town Records of the town of Falmouth in said State of Maine, from the year 1719 to the year 1775.
In which copy is the following, viz: "John Duggins entered his name and purpose of Marriage with Rose Linch, both of Falmouth. Decr. 19 th 1758. R. Stephen Longfellow.
Town Clerk "
On the Records of Marriages, in said Copy, as returned by Thomas Smith, Minister of the Gospel in Falmouth, is the following, viz: "John Duggins and Rose Linch. Febr. 15 th 1759" —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at said City of Portland, this fifth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty —
Wm Boyd. City Clerk of Portland

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Duggins, William GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4043 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 and Mt. 24-60-55  to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Rev. War Section. aw
May 16, 1931.
Mrs. Olive D. Weymouth, R. F. D. No. 1, Lagrange, Me.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 12 th ultimo, you are advised that from the papers in the pension claim, Widow File No. 24,082 , it appears that William Dugans or Duggins , the son of Rose Linch and John Dugans or Duggins, was born at Brunswick, Me. date not stated.
He served from January 14, 1777, to June 8, 1783, as a Private and Corporal in Captains Reed, Warren and Thorp's companies, Colonel Brook's Massachusetts Regiment, and was wounded in the battle at Cherry Valley.
He married at Bangor, ( then called Penobscot ) Me. on March 30, 1789, Elizabeth the daughter of Archibald McPhetres, name of her mother not stated. He died at Orono, Me. May 16, 1803. They had seven children: Rosanna Treat, Sarah Nicholas, Eliza Hopkins, Isabella Neal, Charles, William and John.
The widow Elizabeth was allowed pension on her application executed Oct. 11, 1839, while living at Kilmarnock, Me. aged seventy-two years.

From the papers in the pension claim, Invalid File No. 19,636, it appears that Charles Dugans served as a Private from March 16, 1814 in Captain Joseph Treat's Company, of the Twenty-first Regiment U. S. Infantry and was discharged May 24, 1815. In August 1814, he received an accidental sword wound of the left leg and he was pensioned for disability resulting therefrom, in 1860 while living in Medford, Me. aged sixty-four years. There is no data on file as to his family.
Very respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24082
Elizabeth Duggins Wid of William Duggins Rev. Rev. War.
Act Feb. 2 d 1848,
Index: Vol. A , Page 201
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1921 May 16. Risk to Mrs. Olive S. May. months. aw.

N 14029 Elizabeth Duggan Me Sister Freeman Bradford 38 th Feb. 1850
Oct 7 Mch 1838

6254
Let. to Jos. Carr,
1840
January 7, 1840
let to Allen Haines, Jan'y 6. 1843
Act. 7. July '38

24
Coac

21246
Elizabeth
ad. Am. Soc. of 40-5474
ad. Phil. Soc. 60-a-24
Washington
FREE
J. Minor Mrs. J. Denson Washington D.C.

Mr. A. 2 d Feb: 48. Me:
D. J. W.

10940
Maine.
Elizabeth Duggins Widow of William Duggins who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the year 1803 of in the State of who was a private in the commanded by Captain of the the in commanded by line for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of  July 1837 and sent to  J. D. Combs. Pres.
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Book
Vol. 1
Page 19
J. P. Chase clerk,

8855. Maine.
Elizabeth Duggins widow of William Duggins who was a Private in the Revolution for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of July 1850 and sent to
J. J. Coombe Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book 1 Vol. 2 Page 2

21246
Elizabeth Dugans or Duggins
Wid
William
Me Feb 48-5474
ad 60 acres - 24. no
Boynton
Ans? Dec 1 20/55,
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Washington
W.L.
J. Markham

Bangor Dec 28 th 1855
Hon. J. Minot Com- Pensions Infr-
Elizabeth Dugans Widow of Mr Dugans Private in the Revolutionary War received a warrant from the Department under the Act of March 3 rd 1855 for 60 acres N o 24 and dated Sept. 29, 55.
As other widows of Revolutionary soldiers have received 160 acres
Mrs. Dugans and her folks are very much dissatisfied with her allowance. The 60 acres were probably issued upon the presumption that Dugans had previously received 100 acres.
She is very positive that none had been issued to him.
I would like to obtain a re-examin- ation of her claim and if there has been a mistake it will, doubtless be rectified. She has legally disposed of her 60 acres.
Yours respectfully B. H. Mace

House of Representatives,
Dec. 15, 1855,
Sir,
I had the honor to inquire, sometime ago, if a bounty land warrant had issued to Elizabeth Dugans, or Duggins, & if so, under what law & for what number of acres.
I am informed that such a warrant has issued to her for sixty acres . The basis of the claim was the service of W m Dugans who was in the Revolutionary war, and is supposed to have enlisted from Topsham, Me.
Respectfully, Your obedt servant,
J. Washburn,
The Commr of Pensions,

I Susanna Parsons aged seventy nine years yesterday a resident of Bangor in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine on oath depose testify and say, that I have resided in this town forty one years and have known Mrs Elizabeth Duggins for forty years. When I came to Bangor Mrs Duggins was a Widow and reputed by her neighbors to be the widow of William Duggins who was said to be a Revolutionary Soldier of the U.S. Mrs Duggins had seven children at the time I first became acquainted with her. The oldest of Mrs Duggins children was a daughter who married John Priest and has been dead six or seven years. William Duggins was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and Mrs Duggins has made application to one or two persons to assist her in obtaining a pension, but they never did any thing for her to my knowledge. From in- formation that I have received from Mrs Duggins and from her neighbors I have no doubt she is entitled to a pension. Susanna Parsons
Penobscot ss, December 14 1849 The personally appeared Susanna Parsons above named known to me as a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her signed By me Nathaniel Warren Justice Peace

I Abigail Hatherm of Bangor in the County of Penobscot State of Maine aged Seventyfour years, on oath say that I was acquainted with William Duggins, before his marriage to Elisabeth Mc. Phelps and from that time until his death in Eighteen hundred and three (1803) He was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and I have no doubt of that fact. He married Elisabeth Mc. Phelps in Seventeen hundred and eighty six or Nine and was married by the Rev. Mr. Noble of Kenduskeg. After their marriage they lived together as husband & wife until the time of his death, since that time Elisabeth Duggins has remained a widow and now resides in Bangor. She had seven Children by William Duggins the oldest of whom would be sixty years of age if now living. Resanna was the oldest Child and married a man by the name of Treat who resides in Enfield, Resanna died about seven years ago, the other Children were Sarah, Eliza, Charles, William, Isabella and John Duggins. Mr. William Duggins was reputed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution. I lived for many years a near neighbor to Mr. Duggins before his death and have often heard him and my father in law Abraham Poullet talk together of their Revolutionary services & never heard any one dispute

the fact that William Duggins was a Revolutionary Soldier,
Attest Nahun Warren
Abigail her X Harthens Mark
Penobscot SS Dec. 14. 1849
Then personally appeared the above named Abigail Harthens a credible witness and a woman of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed
Before Me, Nahun Warren, Justice of the Peace

aged Seventytwo I James Mc. Phetres, of Aroo County of Penobscot State of Maine, on oath say that William Duggins Married My Sister Elizabeth Mc. Phetres at the time I was Eleven or twelve years of age the oldest Child of My Sister, Elizabeth was twelve years younger than My self, She would be sixty years of age if now living. She married John Great and died in Enfield or Cold Stream as it was called, in Eighteen hundred and fortytwo, She was fiftythree years of age at the time of her death. Mrs Duggins has remained a widow Ever since the death of her husband which took place in Eighteen hundred and three (1803) William Duggins was a native of Brunswick Maine and was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier I have often heard him speak of his Revolutionary services and of his Campaign against the Indians in New York in the time of the Revolution James Mc. Phetres
Penobscot S.S. Dec. 14. 1849
Then Personally appeared the above named James Mc. Phetres a Credible witness and a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed
Before Me, Nahum Warren Justice of the Peace

I Eliza Hopkins of Bangor in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine on oath say that I am fifty six years old and was born on the 5 th day of August A.D. 1793 , Seventeen hundred and ninetythree (1793) I am one of the Children of Elizabeth and William Duggins two of which were older and four younger than Myself. My father was a native of Brunswick, Maine and was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution My Oldest Sister who was the oldest Child of the family married John Great of Enfield and died in (1842) Eighteen hundred and fortytwo at the age of fiftythree years. The report has been that My father and Mother were married by Rev. Mr. Noble of Kenduskeag some time about the year seventeen hundred and Eightynine My Mother has remained a widow ever since the death of My father which took place in May Eighteen hundred and three (1803) My Mother as she has always informed me was born in a place called Damiscotta and came to this part of the state when she was young. My Mother has been trying to obtain a pension for ten years past and it was said that the services of My father could not be found Attest Noham Warren Eliza Hopkins  Mark

Penobscot S.S. Dec. 14, 1849
Then personally appeared the above named Elisa Hopkins a credible witness and a woman of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her signed
Before me, Nahum Warren Justice of the Peace

I Charles Mc. Phelps of Bangor in the County of Penobscot State of Maine on oath say that I am Seventysix years of age, and was born in Sammicotta as it was then called and came to this place with my father Archibald Mc. Phelps when I was a little more than a year old. I was acquainted with William Duggins before he married my sister Elisabeth and he was always reputed to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, from the time of my sister's marriage to the time of her husband's death they lived together as husband and wife and had a family of seven children the oldest of whom Mrs. Rosanna Frost of Enfield would be about sixty years of age. I was present when William Duggins died which was about fortysix years ago and Elisabeth Duggins has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband (Charles Mc Phelps)
Penobscot S.S. Dec. 14, 1849
Then personally appeared the above named Charles Mc Phelps a credible witness and a man of truth and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed
Before me, Nahum Warren Justice of the Peace

I Sarah Spencer of Orono County of Penobscot State of Maine on death say that I am Eighty two years of age have resided in this town ever since I was born, I was well acquainted with William Duggins and Elizabeth McPhetres before and since their marriage they were married Sixty years ago last March I saw them when they passed by my father's house when they went with their friends to be married, I did not see them married but when the marriage ceremony was over they returned and stopped at Mr. Abraham Allen's a near neighbour to my father and took tea there I was at Mr Allen's and took tea with them I have lived a near neighbour to Mrs. Elizabeth Duggins ever since their marriage, and know her family well, William Duggins was always reported to have been a soldier of the Revolution and he died as near as I can recollect in Eighteen hundred and three (1803) Elizabeth Duggins has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband, I am positive as to the date of the marriage from the fact that I was connected in marriage to the family of Mr. Duggins, Archibald Mc. Phetres, the brother of Mr Duggins married my sister, and I know the names and ages of all Mrs Duggins

Children. Resanna the oldest child of Mrs Luggins married John Great. She has been dead about seven years, and if now living would be sixty years of age. The names of the other children are Sarah, Elisa, Charles, William, Isabella, and John the youngest is is forty six years of age William Luggins lived with his wife in harmony and peace untill his death they were poor but respectable people
Sarah her X Spencer Mark
State of Maine Dec. 14. 1849 Penobscot S.S.
Then Personally appeared Sarah Spencer who is a credible witness and a person of truth and made oath of the truth of the above affidavit by her signed
Before me Nahun Warren Justice of the Peace

I John Blake of Brewer in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine of lawful age being first duly cautioned and sworn. depose and say That I was a Lieutenant in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in the Revolutionary War and I knew William Dugan as a private soldier in the same Regiment and that he was present in the war during the years 1775. 1776. 1777 John Blake
State of Maine
Penobscot ss
Personally appeared before me this fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty since the above named John Blake and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me
Joseph Carr Jr Justice Peace
John

I also certify that the within named John Blake is a person of respectability and entitled to credit as a witness
Joseph Carr Justice of the Peace
Penobscot ss
State of Maine
I Charles Stetson Clerk of the Judicial Court of the State of Maine within and for the county of Penobscot do hereby certify that Joseph Carr is a Justice of the Peace for said county duly commis- -sioned and qualified and that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of the District Court for the Eastern District to be affixed this Seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty Nine. Charles Stetson, Clerk.

Portland May 22 1850
Sir
I herewith send to you additional testimony in support of the claim of Elizabeth Duggins widow of William Duggins for a Pension. The testimony here adduced is important as showing the identity of claimants husband with the soldier whose services are claimed. This testimony shows also that claimant has been endeavouring to obtain a pension for ten years past. I have never presented a case in which I was more thoroughly satisfied of its perfect justness.
I am very respectfully Your Obl: Servt: Freeman Bradford
S. L. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

No. 3 June 1857.
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Portland May 29 1850
Agents.
On the 22 d of this month I forwarded to the Comm ee of Pensions additional testimony in the case of Elizabeth Duggins widow of William Duggins who claims a pension under all the acts of Congress passed on and since the 7 July 1838. I have no doubt but the evidence will prove satisfactory to the Comm ee but I fear that the applicant will be deprived of the pleasure of enjoying her pension unless it is granted soon as the last letter I received from her family represents her to be quite ill and failing fast. I am also desired by them to make an extra effort to procure her pension without delay, and they represent her to be very poor and destitute and none of them able to give her such assistance as she needs.
Should you be of opinion that a representation of her case would be of any avail, I will be much obliged to you by calling the case up, and paying such attention to it as may be necessary.
I am not authorized to incur an expense in your services exceeding twenty dollars and it may be that you can afford to give the necessary attention and expedite the matter for that sum.
I have been expecting the papers in the same case for several days, but have not yet received them. I presume the applicant has been retarded by some unexpected

event, in going before the court with which I left her declaration, I think I shall receive them soon and am very glad you called the case up.
I am Very Respectfully Your O bt : Serv t : Freeman Bradford
Messrs Dickens & Coombs Washington. D.C.

Banger Me June 24/43
Sir -
Mrs Elizabeth Dugans widow of William Dugans a revolutionary soldier who served in Gen John Sullivan's detachment, represents that about four years since she applied for a pension under the Act of Congress. That she filed all the necessary papers to entitle her to a pension. But that she failed through a mistake of Gen John Blake who testified to the services of her said husband. That in writing said Blake's deposition the name of Gen Putnam was erroneously inserted instead of Gen John Sullivan. That said Blake died before she had time to correct the error after it was discovered; Now she asks to call your attention to the subject again and to inquire, whether the name of her

since her husband William Dugans be not found on the papers in your office as pension under Gen. Sullivan (or if so, whether that evidence, with the statement of Gen Blake that he knew the fact of his service, will not with the Secretary have the same weight as if the error had not been committed. She feels that the error of the scribe who wrote Gen Blakes affidavit ought not to deprive her of a pension, if the Department have tendence of the service which cannot fail to be satisfactory, though in two disjoined parts.
I would most respectfully ask a consideration of this point in the hope that the Secretary will see his way clear to give this worthy widow the means of supplying her few  remaining years in that peace & comfort, which she her age requires & to which she has long been a stranger.
Truly yours & Allen H. Kimball He sends Eq loss of occasion.

Elizabeth Luggins widow of William Mayne
admitted Private 2nd 80 on 4 March 1836 to 41 from 63 to 68 - for 48 for life
city 7 Feb 31
J. J. Coombs Print

Additional testimony in the case of Elizabeth Dug- geins - widow of William Duggins
H. Bradford
Portland
Maine
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STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office, } PORTLAND, May 21, A. D. 1850 }
I,
Freeman Bradford
REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that William Warren is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Penobscot, that William Ricker , is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Lincoln, and that Nathaniel S. Ingersoll and Allen H. Cobb , are Acting Justices of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that they are DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Warren is dated March 4th , A. D. 1847 and will expire March 4th A. D. 1854, - the Commission of said Ricker is dated Nov. 27, A.D. 1846 , and will expire Nov. 27, A.D. 1853 . - The Commission of said Ingersoll is dated June 25, A.D. 1846 and will expire June 25, A.D. 1853 . - and that the Commission of said Cobb is dated Aug. 12, A.D. 1846 and will expire Aug. 12, A.D. 1853 . and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be theirs are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

Mar. 23 d
Anna M. Ingalls Post Master Deer Isle Maine
Freeman Bradford Esq. Portland Maine
Elizabeth Duggins

I, Shimeal Owen of Duncissee, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, do hereby testify and say that if I live until the first day of April next I shall be seventy nine years of age, that I was born in Tepsham in said State and lived in that Town and Brunswick until the fall of the year 1839, at which time I removed to Duncissee above named, that I was well acquainted in my youth with William Duggins, who lived with Brig. Gen. Thompson in Tepsham and in Brunswick before he entered the Revolutionary Army, I have always understood and have no doubt of the fact that William Duggins was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and served for a long time, I think, and have been informed that he served in Col. Brooks's Reg. I had a Brother by the name of Philch Owen, who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution. I have frequently known him to

Spake of the soldiers who went from Brunswick and near there and have known my Brother frequently to speak of William Duggins in particular; after Duggins returned from the Army I think he went to Piscataqua and married a woman then by the name of Mr. Phelps. I have always understood that to be the fact, and believe the same to be correct and true. Duggins was my neighbor by quite a number of years and I think he has been over a great many years, I should think more than forty.
Shimeal Clegg.
State of Maine.
Penobscot Co.
March 20th, 1850. Then personally appeared Shimeal Clegg, who swore and made oath that the above deposition by him signed is true before me,
William L. G. Gull, Justice of the Peace.

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Shimmel Buren, before named and that he is a Baptist clergyman and a man of truth and veracity. March 20th, 1850.
R. L. Dugmore, Justice the Peace.

Additional declaration of Elizabeth Fuggins of Bangor in the County of Penobscot State of Maine
And this declarant on the first day of April A.D. 1850 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County on oath States that she has frequently heard her late husband say that he was entitled to Bounty Land by virtue of his services in the war of the Revolution and that he bargained it away or sold it to Robert Great of Bangor. She does not know what kind of a title Mr. Great received of the land, and she has no recollection of signing any deed and she believes she never did sign a deed. This declarant further states that she has been informed by Councillors at law that her signature to a deed of unimproved land wherever situated would be in these days and is now of no kind of use or validity, and that in no event could she obtain dower therein. This declarant recollects that Mr. Great paid her hus- band not long before he died twenty dollars on account of his land and that her husband paid that money to a physician in Boston who prescribed for him while sick with a cancer.
Mr Great has been dead a number of years, and my impression is that the Twenty Dollars paid as aforesaid was all my husband ever realised for

his Land, In answer to the objection made by the Commissioner of Pensions that her failure to present her Claim untill this late day raises a strong presumption against her husbands identity with the Soldiers of the Massachusetts line &c she says she proved by the affidavit of two witnesses that she did make application for assistance to obtain a pension about ten years ago, and then told the same story she has told in her former declaration and she was then informed that no proof of service could be found and without that proof she could not get a pension. She then had no money to give to the agent she employed and she now believes that he did not understand the business or was too careless to make any effort in her favor. She further states that she has ever lived in the outskirts of the City and that her present endeavors to obtain a pension is entirely owing to the kindness of Mrs. Susanna Parsons who has told her repeatedly that she was entitled to a pension and to whom she has repeatedly told her story of being the widow of a Revolutionary Soldier
Witness Nahum Warren
Elisabeth her  Duggin Mark

Penobscot S.S. State of Maine Bangor April 1 A. D. 1850 Then personally appeared the above named Elisabeth Duggins and made oath that the foregoing additional declaration by her signed is true.
Before me Nahum Warren Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named declarant is a credible person and in good repute in her neigh- borhood, that it is the general reputation of all • that know her that her said husband William Duggins was a Revolutionary Soldier and that she is entitled to a pension. I further certify that • Mrs. Duggins retains her mental faculties in a remarkable degree , has a sound memory and states facts that she knows with precision and clearness •
Nahum Warren

I Susanna Parsons of Bangor County of Penobscot State of Maine on oath testify and say in addition and in corroboration of what I stated in a former affidavit in the Claim of Elizabeth Duggins for a pension, that I am knowing to the fact that Mrs. Duggins did consult some person in Bangor (and I think it was Mr. Carr now dead) relative to a right she had to a pension say about ten years ago. I know how disappointed she was when she informed me that her agent could not find any proof of her husband's service as it was alleged. Mrs. Duggins has always informed me that her husband was a soldier of the Revolution and she is a woman of good reputation in her neighborhood and the universal belief is among those who knew her that she ought to have a pension
Witness Nahum Warren
Susanna Parsons
Penobscot S.S. April 1. 1850
Then personally appeared the above named Susanna Parsons a credible witness and a person of truth and made oath that the foregoing additional declaration by her signed is true
Before Me Nahum Warren Justice of the Peace

I David Orcutt of Charlton in the County of Penobscot State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am Seventyeight Years of age, was born in Castine and resided in Orrington now Brewer about thirty years. In my younger days I was well acquainted with William Duggins and Elizabeth Mc. Phelps who both lived in Kenduskeg now Bangor I was present when the said William Duggins and Elizabeth Mc. Phelps were married. They were married by the Rev. Seth Noble at that time a Congregational Preacher at what was called the point at Kenduskeg. Her marriage took place in the month of March 1789 William Duggins and wife lived together until his death which took place more than forty years ago. he died of a Cancer William Duggins was reported to have been a Revolutionary Soldier
Attest Nathan Warren
David Orcutt
Penobscot S.S. April 19. 1850
Then personally appeared the above named David Orcutt a man of truth and a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration
Before me
Nathan Warren

Lincoln p. State of Maine. Topsham March 29 1851
I Charles E White Town clerk of Topsham, on oath, depose and say that I have in my custody and keeping as clerk of said town all the Books of Record belonging thereto from its organization in 1764 to the present time, and also the tax lists and other papers for the most the time during that period, I have examined said lists from 1783 for several years thereafter, and on the tax lists of 1784 there occurs the name of William Duggin as being taxed for one poll, his name also appears on the lists of 1785 and 1786 for a road tax and poll. There appears to have been only three of the name in the Town as appears by the Records. Viz William, Thomas, and John Duggin. John and Thomas married in this town or rather their intention of marriage is published in the Records of said town, - The name of William Duggin does not appear after the year 1786, though I have examined the tax lists to 1800
Charles E White.
Lincoln p.
Topsham March 29 th 1851
Personally appeared the above named Charles E White and acknowledged the above affidavit by him signed, to be true. Sworn to before me.
William Pickering Justice of the Peace.

14029 Elizabeth Dugsnis wife William me at 7 July 1838
H. Bradford Portland Maine
William Dugsnis and wife Sarah March 25 1790

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
20 June 1849.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of William Duggins is borne upon an account in Army Books as a private of Brunswick, in Capt Reed's 6 th Col. Brooks' regiment, and there credited by his service from January 14. 1777 to December 31. 1779 at 40 s per month, enlisted for during the war.
Upon another account in said books as a private in Capt Warren's 6 th Col. Brooks' regiment, served from January 1. to Decem r . 31. 1780. - 12 months - In this account it is noted as follows - "Transferred to Capt Reed's 6 th a Corporal 1. August - 7 months a private at 40 s - 5 months a Corporal in Reed's 6 th 44 s "
Also

Upon a "Register of Non Commissioned Officers and private soldiers in the 7 th Massachusetts Regiment who have died, and been discharged," as belonging to Capt Thops's Co. was discharged June 8 th 1783 by His Excellency Genl Washington. — reason — time expired
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
N. H. E. Chapman,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application of Elizabeth Duggins of Bangor for the proof of the Revolutionary service of William Duggins
And this applicant states that her husband William Duggins was a resident of Brunswick or Topsham in the time of the Revolutionary war and she has heard her husband say that he worked for Brigadier Thompson. Her husband was a soldier in the Revolution and served the whole war. He was with Col Alden and General Sullivan in the Valley of the Susquehanna in the expedition against the Indians in some part of the war and she has heard him say that he was wounded in the battle at Cherry Valley. She states that her husband William Duggins died in 1803 and that she was married to him by the Revd Seth Noble at Hencastle May 29 1789 as she believes; at the time of her marriage she was about 22 years of age. That by her said husband she had 7 children the youngest of which is 46 years of age 9th of May 1849. This applicant therefore requests the Secretary of State to give all the evidence of any one of the names that can be identified by the above description of service, and for the purpose of this ap-

plication she appoints F. Bradford of Portland her attorny
her Elisabeth X Duggerin Mark
Signed before me Nahum Warren Bangor May 11. 1849
Justice of the Peace
37 50
F. Bradford Portland Maine

I Martha McPhetres of Orono in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine of lawful age being first cautioned and sworn, on oath depose and say. That I was well acquainted with William Dugant, and know that he died in Orono on the sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and three. I saw him die, and attended his funeral. I also am well acquainted with Elizabeth Dugant the widow of the said William, and I know that she is his widow for I was present and saw them married in Penobscot or what is now Bangor on the third day of March Seventeen hundred and Eight Nine. by the Rev d Seth Noble the Minister of the place and I further know that his widow is now living and has not been married since his death
Witnesses to the mark Joseph Barr L Joseph Barr
Martha her McPhetres mark
Penobscot ss
State of Maine
Personally appeared before me this Eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine the above named Martha McPhetres and made oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed is true
Joseph Barr L Jus. Peace

I also certify that Martha McPherson is a person of respectability and entitled to credit as a witness
Joseph Barron L. J. P
State of Maine
Pembecor J.
I Charles Stetson Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the State of Maine within and for the County of Pembecor do hereby certify that Joseph Barron L. is a Justice of said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature annexed purporting to be his is genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of the District Court for the Eastern District to be affixed the nineteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
Charles Stetson, Clerk.

State of Maine
Penobscot ss. On this ninth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty were personally appeared before E. G. Rawson Judge of Probate in the County aforesaid Elizabeth Duggins a resident of Bangor in said County aged 82 years who on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the acts of congress passed July 7. 1838, March 3 d 1843 - June 17. 1844 and Feb'y 2 d 1848. And this declarant states that she is the widow of William Duggins late of Bangor, who was a soldier of the Revolution. She further states that her said husband was a native of Brunswick Maine, and resided in said town or was in the service of Brig. Gen. Thompson of Topsham at the time he enlisted into the army of the Revolution. She has heard her husband say that he enlisted and served for during the war and that he was under the command of General Sullivan in this expedition against the Indians in the valley of the Susquehanna. She believes that he was wounded in the Battle of Cherry Valley at the same time, that his colonel, Ichabod Holden was slain. This declarant has heard her husband say that he served the whole of the

Revolutionary war and she has no doubt of the fact and that he was honorably discharged at the end of the war. She believes that he served in the latter part of the war in the grade of Corporal and Sargent -
And this declarant further states that she was married by the Rev. Seth Noble of Kenduskeag in the month of March 1789. That her Sister Martha McPhetres of Orono now living was present at the marriage. That William Duggins her husband died about forty six years ago and that she has remained a widow ever since. She also states that she and her said husband lived together from the time of her marriage to his death and that she had by him the following children, viz; - Rosanna Yeat now dead, and who if living would be sixty years of age. Sarah Nicholas, aged fifty eight years. Eliza Hopkins aged 56 years. Charles Duggins aged 54 years. William Duggins aged 51 years. Isabella Neal aged 48 years. John Duggins aged 46 years. She therefore claims a pension under the acts aforesaid and exhibits the following testimony in support thereof. -
Witness - Elijah G. Parsons
Elizabeth her X Duggins mark
Signed and sworn to before me the day and year just above written -
E. G. Parsons Judge of Probate

State of Maine. ✓
Penobscot ss.
I, Samuel P. Dymond a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, Certify that I have examined the files of the Whig and Courier a daily newspaper published in Bangor in said County, and preserved in the Office of that paper; that in that paper issued on the twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two is published a notice of the death of Mrs. Rosanna Treat, the wife of John Treat, of Enfield, formerly known as Colesstream. She was fifty three years old, and died at said Enfield or Colesstream on the seventeenth day of the same month.
Samuel P. Dymond Justice of the Peace.
The subscribers publishers of the Newspaper called the Whig & Courier have examined the files in this office and state on oath that the facts stated in the above certificate relative to the notice of the death of Rosanna Treat are correct and true
Penobscot ss. Dec. 13 1849 before me Jacob A. Smith John S. Hayward. Signed also sworn John Williams Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Penobscot County ss
I John Williams Register of the Probate Court in and for the County aforesaid hereby certify that Hon E. G. Rawson before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Dug-gins was made, is Judge of the Probate Court for said County, that he is duly commissioned and qualified agreeably to the laws of the State and that the foregoing signature purporting to his is genuine and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attesta-tions.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and seal of said court this ninth day of July A D 1849
John Williams Register

City of Bangor
City Clerk's Office Oct. 16 1839
I John Hayward of lawful age, on oath depose and say that I am City Clerk of the city of Bangor and have the custody of the records of said city and no record of any marriage prior to the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred exists.
John S. Hayward City Clerk.
State of Maine
Penobscot ss.
Personally appeared before me this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine the above named John S. Hayward and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
Joseph Carr Jr Justice Peace
I also certify that the above named John S. Hayward is the Clerk for the city of Bangor Joseph Carr Jr
State of Maine.
Penobscot ss. I Charles Stetson Clerk of the Judicial Court for the State of Maine within and for the County of Penobscot do hereby certify that Joseph Carr Jr is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the signature annexed purporting to be his is genuine. In Witness whereof

I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of the District Court for the Eastern District to be affixed this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, — Charles Station, Clerk.

Oct. 24. 1839
6254
me
July 7. 1838.
ERED
Hon. J. L. Edwards Pension Office War Department Washington

Bangor October 17th 1839
Sir
I have the honor to enclose to you the papers in the case of Elizabeth Dugans an applicant for a pension, if the proof is sufficient and a certificate is granted you will please forward it to your
most obedt servt
Joseph Carr Jr Bangor Me
Hon J L Edwards Washington

RECEIVED APR 15 1921 DIVISION

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April 12 th 1921
Honored Gentlemen of Interior of Pension Department will you send me A Record of one Charles Dugans by Name who served in the Old War Dept file 196136 war of 1812 he was my Father I have no proof only my word have been told I could get a record by sending to the Department
Also of his Father who served in the Revolutionary war think his Name was John Dugans his Wife Elizabeth drew A Pension during her long life
Wm 240827 not John Mrs Elizabeth widow of John
I am an old Lady nearly 78 years and A Soldier's Widow want these proofs for my children Respectfully
Address Olive D Weymouth P.O. Box 1 Leagrang Maine